To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

J. B. Holgate Letter Regarding the Ohio-Michigan Boundary Dispute

Om1399_1146644_001

Manhattan-June 24, 1836
Dear father,
I arrived here last evening. The com=
modore Perry did not come in last night as I
expected, and in which I was calculating to
go to Buffalo, and so I took a passage in the
Jackson to Toledo, and shall wait for a [crossed out] here
for a boat to proceed down the lake. In regard
to your matters; I called [crossed out] Mr. Chase has gone out
of town, so that I have been unable to get the
information which you wish about the stock.
Plat Card has not been, was [crossed out] and [written above] is [caret] not [above caret] gone to Buffalo.
He is in town yet, and I cannot learn that he
is going.
I was kept awake last night till 3 oclock in
the morning, by the outrageous noise made
by the rabble rejoicing at the settlement
of the Boundary question. Firing of guns, an
burning of rockets, and throwing fire balls was
going on till 10 O'Clock in the evening, and after
that, the tavern in which I slept rang with
boisterous shouts and yells, and drunken songs
and laughter, till near morning; such an
outrageous noise I never heard before in my
whole night [crossed out] life [written above]. I sent you a paper containing
the congressional enactments upon the question;
probably you will have received it before this time;
you will see it is upon conditions that Michigan
accepts of the terms imposed upon her, and
it is generally believed that she is brought to
such a pass, that she must accept [underlined] and
in that case, the question is at an end. It is [crossed out]
It will be known in a few weeks, probably,

Manhattan-June 24, 1836
Dear father,
I arrived here last evening. The com=
modore Perry did not come in last night as I
expected, and in which I was calculating to
go to Buffalo, and so I took a passage in the
Jackson to Toledo, and shall wait for a [crossed out] here
for a boat to proceed down the lake. In regard
to your matters; I called [crossed out] Mr. Chase has gone out
of town, so that I have been unable to get the
information which you wish about the stock.
Plat Card has not been, was [crossed out] and [written above] is [caret] not [above caret] gone to Buffalo.
He is in town yet, and I cannot learn that he
is going.
I was kept awake last night till 3 oclock in
the morning, by the outrageous noise made
by the rabble rejoicing at the settlement
of the Boundary question. Firing of guns, an
burning of rockets, and throwing fire balls was
going on till 10 O'Clock in the evening, and after
that, the tavern in which I slept rang with
boisterous shouts and yells, and drunken songs
and laughter, till near morning; such an
outrageous noise I never heard before in my
whole night [crossed out] life [written above]. I sent you a paper containing
the congressional enactments upon the question;
probably you will have received it before this time;
you will see it is upon conditions that Michigan
accepts of the terms imposed upon her, and
it is generally believed that she is brought to
such a pass, that she must accept [underlined] and
in that case, the question is at an end. It is [crossed out]
It will be known in a few weeks, probably,